Discipline Priest Healing Mythic+ Tips — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Discipline Priest in World of Warcraft — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0).
Discipline Priest in Mythic+
For assistance with gearing your Discipline Priest for Mythic+ or other content, please look at our gearing guide.
Mythic+ Talents for Discipline Priests
For more information on talents as well as alternative talent suggestions for various scenarios, please refer back to the talents page.
The War Within Mythic Plus Talent Builds for Discipline Priest
Oracle Mythic+ Build for Discipline Priest
Oracle provides both significant AoE HPS via primarily
Penance as
well as strong single target healing through a combination of Penance and
Power Word: Shield. This makes Oracle a very flexible choice
regardless of dungeon.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Voidweaver Mythic+ Build for Discipline Priest
While this build is not recommended compared to the Oracle build, Voidweaver
can still provide solid healing in Mythic Plus content. The build excels
at pushing larges amount of healing during
Entropic Rift windows,
just be cautious of getting caught out without a rift available if you use
it at an inopportune time.
Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the build directly into your game!
Mythic+ Utility for Discipline Priest in Midnight Pre-Patch
This section talks mostly about the uses of different spells. For in-depth explanations of all Priest Abilities and Talents, including these, check out our Spells page.
Utility of Discipline Priest in The War Within
Interrupts, Stuns and Stops
Discipline Priest is one of only two specializations in the entire game that do not have access to an interrupt ability.
Psychic Scream gives us the capability to fear a
group of enemies. This is our only form of AoE crowd control, so utilizing it to interrupt or disrupt large groups of enemies makes it immensely valuable.
Shackle Undead provides a potential single target CC.
Always be on the lookout for Undead/Aberration enemies to utilize this crowd
control ability.
Dominate Mind grant us to capability to control an enemy for a short period. In most cases, this does not provide significant value, but there have been times in the past where dungeon or raid enemies had extremely powerful spells we could cast by utilizing these abilities.
Other Utility
Dispel Magic allows us to dispel
buffs and effects off of enemy targets. This can be valuable in many situations where the buffs on various enemies can make them either significantly more threatening via damage increases or a lot harder to kill via damage reductions.
Improved Purify alters our default magic
dispel to also remove Disease effects. How useful this is heavily relies on the content you are doing, but in situations where there are disease effects being applied to allies, this utility can have immense value.
Mass Dispel may be one of our most powerful
pieces of utility. The ability to remove magic debuffs from an entire group of allies or from a group of enemies with a single cast is immensely powerful. Many mechanics in both dungeons and raids have been trivialized by this spell over the years, and it will likely remain to do so in the future.
Power Infusion is an immensely powerful
spell available to us in our talent tree. This ability allows us to provide a significant haste buff to a single player on a two-minute cooldown, most often used on an ally DPS player, especially when considering
Twins of the Sun Priestess.
Power Word: Fortitude, while not the most interesting piece of
utility, is very valuable in many situations. Keep this buff active on your group at all times.
Specific Dungeon Talent Choices
For a quick guide of which talents to use, check the dungeon and affixes in the table below and see the list of suggested utility talents you should make sure you work into your build.
| Dungeons | Affixes |
|---|---|
| Ara-Kara, City of Echoes | |
| The Dawnbreaker | |
| Eco-Dome Al'dani | |
| Halls of Atonement | |
| Operation: Floodgate | |
| Priory of the Sacred Flame | |
| Tazavesh: Streets of Wonder | |
| Tazavesh: So'leah's Gambit |
Based on the selections above, you should run the following class talents:
- There are no specific talent suggestions.
Discipline Priest Mythic+ Rotation
Your primary healing will depend on what Hero talent you have selected. If you
are running
Oracle, your primary healing will come from a combination
of
Penance and
Power Word: Shield. Between the sheer number of
modifiers Penance has access to, you can make it an incredibly potent spell.
Power Word: Shield is also incredibly strong as a single target EHP tool.
If playing
Voidweaver, your primary healing will come from a
your
Entropic Rift windows, utilizing
Penance and
Void Blast to push large amounts of damage during the rifts duration.
Outside of rift windows, you need to be careful as your options are much
more limited.
The main difference between healing in dungeons versus raids is that a
single cast of
Power Word: Radiance covers the entire group. Due to this,
ramping does not exist as it does for raiding. This allows Discipline to be a
much more reactive spec like other healers. We can still benefit from applying
shields/damage reductions early, but it is much easier to heal unexpected
damage comparatively. Due to this, the misconception that Discipline Priest can
not handle mistakes from your group or unexpected damage is largely untrue.
Discipline's healing rotation remains the same for Normal, Heroic, and Mythic dungeons. For more information about the Discipline Priest healing rotation, refer to the Rotation page.
Gearing for Mythic+
The primary difference you may see between Discipline Priests gearing for Raid content versus Mythic Plus content is that often times, Discipline players may look towards DPS trinkets to push their damage contribution further when they feel like they already have enough healing to handle the required amount for the specific dungeon and key level they are attempting. This is a very personal decision and not something you should default to doing in all cases. When you are just starting out especially, I would recommend sticking to healing or stat proc trinkets first and only shifting to a DPS trinket or two situationally and when you are more comfortable with the specialization.
Keep in mind that the damage from DPS trinkets DOES NOT heal through Atonement, so you are strictly using it for DPS and not healing.
For information on what DPS trinkets can be valuable to include when running Mythic Plus, take a look at our gear page.
Changelog
- 19 Jan. 2026: Updated for Midnight pre-patch.
- 30 Nov. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.7.
- 05 Oct. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.2.5.
- 04 Aug. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.2.
- 15 Jun. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.7.
- 21 Apr. 2025: Reviewed for Patch 11.1.5.
- 01 Mar. 2025: Updated based on recent tuning.
- 24 Feb. 2025: Updated for Patch 11.1.
- 15 Dec. 2024: Updated for Patch 11.0.7.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Removed some outdated references.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Updated page for Season 1 Release.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 27 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 11 Nov. 2023: Removed outdated mention.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for patch 10.1.7.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated talent recommendation for 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 22 Jan. 2023: Updated talent recommendation for patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Removed missed mentions of Shining Force on page.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 25 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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